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People like MIL are often meaner to the people who try to pacify them than to the people who are direct and won't take their shit.  I also think it sounds like a messed up dynamic between you/dh/mil.  You should not be in this role of keeping the peace by keeping secrets from your husband.  What is your big fear in all of this?  So your DH is angry at your MIL, what's the worst that could happen?[/quote]

I agree with everything this PP has to say.

NEVER apologize to her for things like this. The first sorry was sufficient, and even then, in an off-hand tone.

[b]I would stay and brazen it out, without exerting myself one little bit to be polite or make conversation with her. Be at your most charming and pleasant to everybody else around her. Make them all love you. It's called isolating the enemy, first chapter in mean girl behavior :-)[/b]

Also I would try to avoid her in the future. There are ways to get together with the rest of the family without her, right? You don't need your MIL, OP. She needs you to have access to the grandkids, and if she's not prepared to be nice for that, then it's not a relationship the grandkids will miss anyway.

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What are the other chapters? Seriously, I'd like to know. I could use a bit more "mean girl" attitude.[/quote]

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